Subnational Climate Change Policy in India

Wednesday - Thursday, December 8-9, 2021

Co-Sponsored by: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements; Centre for Policy Research; Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University

Agenda

Participant List

Background Papers:

Prepared for the workshop: Johannes Urpelainen and Jai Shekhar, "Center-State Relations in India: A Political Economy Approach to Climate and Energy Policy," November 2021.

Navroz Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, and Parth Bhatia, “Unlocking Climate Action in Indian Federalism,” Centre for Policy Research, July 2021.

Presentations:

Aditya Valiathan Pillai, "Climate Federalism in India: Context, Patterns, Fixes"

Robert Stavins, "Sub-National Climate Change Policies: The U.S. Context"

Mark Jaccard, "Subnational vs National Climate Policy: The Case of Canada"

Gørild Heggelund, "Subnational Policy in Comparative Context: China"

Kaveri Iychettira, "Climate Change Policy and Power Sector Reform"

Additional readings suggested by participants:

International Energy Agency, "The Role of China’s ETS in Power Sector Decarbonisation," April 2021.

Michael A. Mehling, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Robert N. Stavins, "Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)," Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, October 2017.

Robert Stavins, "Lessons Learned from Sub-National Emissions Trading Systems," presentation to a workshop, "Prospects for Guangdong Province’s Emissions Trading System," June 16, 2021. Similar to Professor Stavins' presentation in this workshop, but with additional slides on the nature of a tradable performance standard.